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The Eye Flashing Before Your Lives was a hit single from 80s metal group The Green Eyed Posse. The song topped the charts for 11 consecutive months spanning 1989 to 1990. Some Pepper Theorists believe that the lyrics in this song accurately predicts a grim future for mankind and describes, vaguely, certain steps that will be needed to protect civilization from extinction.

Composition

The song was composed over a two year period under a curtain of strict secrecy.

Dustin Boehr began writing the lyrics for the song in early 1987, while serving in the Dagom Gaden Monastery in northern Tibet. Although the vast majority of monks died there in a freak meteorite strike in 1992 (see Dagom Gaden Monastary for full article), a few monks survive today and provide provocative eye-witness accounts of Boehr's penmanship. Songtsän Detsen, a revered Tibetan monk, recalls a time when he had inadvertently interrupted Boehr. Detsen says he entered Dustin Boehr's study to retrieve a certain book he had lent Boehr when it was still very bright outside. He found the book on table near the door, as if Dustin was finished with it, but stopped to listen to a tune that Dustin was humming. Songtsän Detsen says in his own words,

"The rhythm became the skeleton supporting my earthly body. At first, tears of hope steamed down my cheeks forming large puddles on the floor. But then darkness itself sang through Dustinsan's voice and it shook me to my very soul. His was the voice of a lily; my ear was a dead pool buried deep in the earth."

According to Detsen, it was already late at night when he left Dustin Boehr's study, though it felt like he was there only for a few moments. Some Pepper Theorists believe this story is evidence of Dustin's strange mystic ability, but critics of Songtsän Detsen's story claim that "he is just a senile old man" (Detsen was 88 years old at the time).

Lyrics

The lyrics for The Eye Flashing Before Your Lives exist in many forms because the band never sang it exactly the same way twice. The lyrics below is the version included in the album's cd jacket

[Lyrics have been removed by an unknown source. See discussion for information.]

The Green Eyed Posse and Prophesy

(See Pepper Prophesies main article)